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Just got done watching the documentary on the History Channel. It was well done and informative. If you missed it, I'm not sure when they'll re-run it, but it's definitely worth 2 hours of your time.

Blogging should reach pre-move levels late this week. All boxes are officially unpacked and there's just one good day's worth of home-improvement work to be done before I sit back and declare it: "Good enough."

There's been a lot of debate both in the blogosphere and in the mainstream media about CNN executive Eason Jordan's confession in Friday's New York Times that CNN had first-hand knowledge of the torture and brutality behind Saddam Hussein's Iraq, but kept quiet. CNN stayed silent for two reasons: First, to protect the lives of […]

I saw today's video of what I've been referring to as the "Lenin moment" -- that is, the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. I must admit that it brought a smile to my face. When I had a spare moment at work, I cruised some of the blogs, just to see […]

Just saw John Pike on Fox News. (Full disclosure: I interviewed him several times many years ago and used him as a source when I was covering Vandenberg AFB for the Lompoc Record.) Pike suggested that we might find a use for the Mother of All Bombs if, hypothetically, a column of Iraqi troops was […]

Democrats Henry "See No Clinton Administration Evil" Waxman and John Dingell are asking the General Accounting Office to see if Vice President Cheney has been helping Halliburton and its subsidiaries get defense contracts. They are asking for your tax dollars to be spent on an investigation despite the fact that: There have been no credible […]

I haven't written much on the current war on Iraq, and that's not just because I've been overwhelmed by the home-buying/moving/home-improvement activities. I've got friends over there in the Gulf -- good friends. From my church group there are 8 guys, all Marines, deployed over there. Four of them I consider friends. Two of them […]

According to Jonah Goldberg over at National Review Online, NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell, wife of Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, was on the Today show talking about last night's decapitation strike on Saddam Hussein. After 4 bunker-busters hit the site Saddam was believed to be at, there won't be much left of Saddam to identify. DNA […]

Michael Kelly was the first U.S. journalist killed in Iraq last week when the Humvee he was riding in crashed. Kelly was an excellent writer and editor. He will be missed. When word of Kelly's demise hit the Union-Tribune's watercooler, the consensus seemed to be that he shouldn't have been there in the first place […]

...but the computer is assembled and I'm back to limited blogging, probably for about another week. Anyway, the "professional journalists" who discuss media issues over on the Society for Professional Journalists mailing list once again have shown that they lack critical thinking skills. The incident that has caused a very minor uproar on the listserv […]